News

• 22 November 2003
  MISSION IN AMERICA IN THE EARLY PART OF THE LAST CENTURY: EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTATION FROM FIDES PHOTO ARCHIVES See CAM2 FIDES SPECIAL (www.fides.org.) for all sorts of information on the Second American Mission Congress taking place in Guatemala, including exclusive photos from Fides historic mission archives on mission in Americ ...
• 22 November 2003
  AMERICA/COLOMBIA - NO END TO VIOLENCE AGAINST THE CHURCH: KIDNAPPED PRIEST FOUND DEAD; SEVEN CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES HELD HOSTAGE AND ROBBED. San Vicente del Caguan (Fides Service) – Safely back at their mission at last, seven missionaries of St John Eudes in southern Colombia lived a frightening experience at the hands of kidnappers. For several hours they ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/IVORY COAST – ABENGOUROU: BISHOP BRUNO KOUAME RESIGNS, REV. JEAN-JACQUES KOFFI OI KOFFI APPOINTED Vatican City (Fides Service ) – The Holy Father, Pope John Paul II has (21 November 2003) accepted the renunciation of the pastoral government of the diocese of Abengourou (Ivory Coast), presented by Bishop Bruno Kouam ...
• 21 November 2003
  AMERICA/ UNITED STATES - TOWARDS AMERICAN MISSION CONGRESS CAM 2: 75 US MEMBERS REPRESENT THE ENTIRE COUNTRY INCLUDING ALASKA New York (Fides Service) – The delegation of the Church in the United States to the second American Mission Congress in Guatemala, is composed of 75 members. Father John Kozar, National Director of the Pontifical Missi ...
• 21 November 2003
  AMERICA/MEXICO - “PROGRESSIVE LOSS OF GOSPEL VALUES UNDERMINES FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL HARMONY” SAY MEXICAN BISHOPS Mexico City (Fides Service) – At the end of its plenary assembly 10 to 14 November, the Bishops’ Conference of Mexico issued a message “Unbind him ad let him free” (inspired by the figure of Lazarus), in which t ...
• 21 November 2003
  VATICAN - AMERICA IS EVANGELISING AMERICA AND EVEN REACHING BEYOND ITS CONTINENTAL FRONTIERS Vatican City (Fides Service) – From 25 to 30 November 2003, the 2nd American Mission Congress, CAM 2, will take place in Guatemala. This major ecclesial event will be attended by more than 3000 delegates from every cou ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/SOUTH AFRICA - 5 MILLION SOUTH AFRICANS SUFFER FROM AIDS, 600 NEW CASES EVERY 24 HOURS: GOVERNMENT WILL DISTRIBUTE ANTIRETROVIRAL DRUGS FREE Johannesburg (Fides Service ) – South Africa is the country with the highest number of people suffering from Aids in the world: 5 million out of a population of 45 million are infected. In view of the alarming spread ...
• 21 November 2003
  VATICAN - THE POPE ADDRESSES PONTIFICAL COUNCIL "COR UNUM" PLENARY: “THE CHURCH TENDS NOT ONLY TO THE MATERIAL NEEDS OF THOSE IN DIFFICULTY… WITH SIMPLICITY AND PASTORAL PRUDENCE SHE DOES NOT HESITATE TO BEAR WITNESS TO CHRIST, WHO REVEALS THE FACE OF GOD THE FATHER, TENDER AND LOVING” Vatican City (Fides Service) – “Love of God and neighbour is a direct manifestation of the Church’s fidelity to her Lord who ‘gave himself up for us’ (Eph 5, 2). The Church was born from the pieced heart of Jes ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/EGYPT - CHRISTIANS IN EGYPT, A COUNTRY OF TOLERANCE, ARE A BRIDGE BETWEEN TWO FAITHS AND TWO CULTURES Alexandria of Egypt (Fides Service)- “This cannot be labelled as religious Muslim terrorism since its victims are also Muslims” Bishop Giuseppe Bausardo, Apostolic Vicar of Alexandria of Egypt told Fides with regard ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/ETHIOPIA-ERITREA - AT THE MOMENT THERE ARE NO SIGNS OF A RETURN TO WAR BETWEEN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA AFTER ASMARA WITHDREW ITS AMBASSADOR TO THE AFRICAN UNION Addis Ababa (Fides Service)- “This development is serious although there are no signs of a return of military tension between Ethiopia and Eritrea or, still worse, of war” local Church sources in Addis Ababa told Fid ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA/REPUBLIC OF CONGO - EBOLA STRIKES AGAIN: QUARANTINE FOR MBOMBO DISTRICT Brazzaville (Fides) – Ebola disease strikes periodically in tropical forests taking a few dozen lives and then disappearing again. Unfortunately the health minister of the Republic of Congo, Alain Moka, has confirmed t ...
• 21 November 2003
  ASIA/INDIA - YOUTH AGAINST TERRORISM, COMMITTED TO PEACE AND A FUTURE OF BROTHERHOOD: 600 TO ATTEND WORLD YOUTH SUMMIT SPONSORED BY UNITED NATIONS Bombay (Fides Service) – Indian youth is taking up the challenge to work for peace. “Do you care about the future of humanity, are you ready to work for peace? Are you good at planning and decision making? Are you in ...
• 21 November 2003
  ASIA/PAKISTAN - CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS CLOSE RAMADAN IN UNITY AND HARMONY: FUNDAMENTALISM MUST BE ISOLATED – GOVERNMENT OUTLAWS THREE EXTREMIST GROUPS Islamabad (Fides Service) – Increase common initiatives, in a spirit of tolerance and harmony; isolate fundamentalists: these decisions were taken by Muslim and Christian leaders at a Dinner on 19 November in Lahore or ...
• 21 November 2003
  AFRICA - 115 MILLION SUFFER FROM DIABETES: ANOTHER KILLER OF CHILDREN IN SUBSAHARAN AFRICA Rome (Fides Service) – Children who develop diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa are dying within a year for want of insulin. Supplies of the drug and the syringes needed for daily injections are erratic in many places in Af ...
• 20 November 2003
  AMERICA/GUATEMALA - CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE AGENTS OF EVANGELISATION: “MISSIONARY CHILDHOOD IS A CONCRETE REALITY IN LATIN AMERICA, IT ANIMATES PARISHES, MOVEMENTS, SCHOOLS” SAYS SISTER MARIA TERESA CRESCINI ON THE EVE OF CAM2 Vatican City (Fides Service) – “In America Latina Missionary Childhood helps adults realise children’s amazing capacity for commitment giving rise to a truly surprising movement of prayer and material aid ”. Sist ...